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Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation

1 review
Omer Bartov

Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

A Good Start
"In what way have we sinned, that we should be treated worse than animals? Hunted from place to place, cold, filthy and in rags, we wander about like gypsies and in the end are destroyed like vermin!" The origin of this lamentation-- perhaps a victim of the Holocaust? No, rather an excerpt for a letter written by a German soldier on the Western Front in November of 1915. I found this book ...

Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums
Mary Alexander

AltaMira Press, 2007

In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's Museums in Motion was hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the history of museums since the eighteenth century with a detailed examination of the function of museums and museum workers in modern society, it served as an essential resource for those seeking to enter to the museum profession and for established professionals looking for an expanded understanding of their own ...

In Motion British Prints 1914-1939 2009 Wall Calendar
Pomegranate

Pomegranate, 2008

In the early twentieth century, the Futurist and Cubist movements on the Continent stimulated British artists to produce their own radical geometric abstractions, as well as images flavored with visual escapism colorful, streamlined Jazz Age images of speed, sport, and diversion. This calendar features a dozen works from Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914 1939, an exhibition jointly produced by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The ...

Past for the Eyes: East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums after 1989

Central European University Press, 2008

How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history ended in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public ...

The Hidden God

1 review
Kent Jones, Phillip Lopate, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003

I was intrigued
The Hidden God Contrary to another reviewer, I was not disappointed by this book. It takes an unusual angle into the subject of film and struggling faith, and although it doesn't say the last word on any of the fifty films chosen, it starts one thinking on new lines. The directors included are world leaders of cinema. While a few of the brief, four-page treatments are worthless, many are ...

Wondrous Difference
Alison Griffiths

Columbia University Press, 2001

This innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, vividly depicting the dynamic visual culture of the period as it collided with the emerging discipline of anthropology and the new technology of motion pictures.

Peter Greenaway: Museums and Moving Images (Reaktion Books - Essays in Art and Culture)
David Pascoe

Reaktion Books, 1997

This extensively illustrated book examines Greenaway's vision from a number of perspectives and traces a shift of sensibility in his work. David Pascoe examines not only Greenaway's films, but also his paintings, exhibitions and installations. "[Pascoe] tirelessly explicates the numerology and mytho-mania that are the film-maker's organising principles"? The Guardian "A supremely intelligent, utterly tuned-in, definitive exploration of the ...

On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early Twentieth-Century American Art
Patricia McDonnell, Robert Clyde Allen

Yale University Press, 2003

American artists in the early decades of the 20th century found rich inspiration in vaudeville halls, revue theatres and moving-picture houses. The spectacular new visual attractions in these venues, emerging partly as a result of such technological advances as electrical lighting of the stage and the invention of motion pictures, emboldened artists to translate the arresting stimuli to their own medium. This illustrated work is devoted to ...

Going to the Pictures: Scottish Memories of Cinema (Scotland¬s Past in Action)
Andrew Martin

National Museums of Scotland, 2000

Going to the Pictures recalls the days when a night out could only mean a trip to the local Regal or fleapit. The century's most popular art form is remembered in the words of cinema-goers from all over the country, recalling village halls in the Highlands and Islands, as well as the art deco palaces of the cities. Scots share memories of the Silent days, courting in the balcony, noisy children's matinees, and the sheer glamour of Hollywood and ...

The Indy 500 and physics: how a partnership brought them together. (PHYSICS AT THE INDY 500 program at The ...
Nancy B. Carlson, C. Aviva Mintz

T.H.E. Journal, LLC, 1993

This digital document is an article from T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), published by T.H.E. Journal, LLC on September 1, 1993. The length of the article is 2441 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the supplier: The Children's ...

Power in Motion: The Automotive Design of Bill Mitchell
Margo MacInnes

Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, 1989

Lots of photos and illustrations in this 34 page softcover. This paperback was published for the exhibition that was opening in November 1989 on the automotive design career of Bill Mitchell in Detroit at the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfild Village. Bill Mitchell was GM vice president of design for 17 years in the 60's and 70's. His batting average was pretty darn good; 72 million cars were sold with designs done during his era.

Minds in Motion: Using Museums to Expand Creative Thinking

1 review
Alan Gartenhaus

Caddo Gap Pr, 1997

An excellent resource for docents, educators, and teachers!
An exploration of activities that can be used in art, history, and science institutions to engage children with collections and provide them with opportunities to discover meaning and expand their creative thinking.

Masters of Starlight: Photographers in Hollywood

1 review
David Fahey, Linda Rich

Los Angeles County Museum, 1993

Coffee table book of old Hollywood glamour photos
For aficionados of Hollywood's golden years. The book is the companion to an exhibit at the LA museum on the Hollywood photographers whose portraits probably did more than the films in creating the glamour associated with the movie industry. It's great fun to look through and see rare photographs of both the familiar and forgotten faces of Hollywood.

The Impulse to Preserve: Reflections of a Filmmaker (Peabody Museum)

2 reviews
Robert Gardner

Peabody Museum Press, 2006

Brian L. Frye - Bomb Magazine
by Brian L. Frye Robert Flaherty invented ethnographic filmmaking, and Jean Rouch transformed it into sociology. But Robert Gardner made it an art form. If his predecessors created films of practical beauty, Gardner infused his own with an exquisite aesthetic rigor. While documenting life in pre-modern--sometimes nearly primeval--societies, they preserve something of the pleasures peculiar to ...

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